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BUFFALO, New York. July 9: The beleaguered World University Games, gathering a record 5.100 athletes from 136 nations, opened Inausplciously on Thursday for their first staging on US soil, reports Reuter.
Like the Games themselves — which have been embraced only grudgingly by corporate, sponsors, top-name athletes and fans — the ceremony got off to a jittery start when a raspy tape machine malfunctioned during the presentation of colours by a US national honour guard.
Minutes later, seven parachutists from a team of 14 precision skydivers missed their mark in Rich Stadium and landed in an adjacent parking lot.
Bus drivers carrying athletes and officials from several delegations got lost route to the stadium, 45 minutes from downtown Buffalo, and arrived only moments before they were due to march in.
The three-hour-long opening ceremony was produced by Ricky Kirshner, whose previous
credits include President Bill Clinton's inaugural gala.
There was another glitch during the musical portion of the ceremonies when pop singer Natalie Cole's taped voice blared over the loudspeaker before, she was handed the microphone.
American country singer Kenny Rogers, the Buffalo philharmonic and a fireworks dis-. play concluded the festivities.
The Games torch was carried by some 3,000 runners on a 1, lOO-milc (1,800-km) relay from the United Nations tn New York city to ignite the cauldron used at the 1980 Winter Olympics In Lake Placid.
The Lake Placid cauldron is on loan to Buffalo for the Games. It was Ignited by US swimmer Ron Karnaugh, whose father. Peter, died of a heart attack while watching his son march in the opening ceremonies at the 1992 Olympics.
Several teams including Macedonia and Yugoslavia mar ched under the flag of the Federation International du Sport Universitaire (FISU), the Games' world governing body.
The Games were declared of-
ficlally opened by FISU president Primo Nebioio.
The 17th World University Games, a 10-day, 12-sport event for student-athletes between 17 and 28 years of age, end July 18.
Organisers, who scaled down their 1988 budget by 40 per cent to dollar 34 million, have been beset by financial problem' since being awarded the Games in 1989.
Corporate sponsors have generated an estimated dollar 5 million, far short of the dollar 12.5 million hoped for. -
Ticket sales, expected to raise another dollar 6 million, have only reached the dollar 2.5 -million mark.
And Games organisers were unable to attract a major US network television contract. Instead, ESPN, a US cable sports network, was paid dollar 300,000 by the Games and will provide just six hours of coverage on the final weekend.
The announced attendance was morp than 70,000 but only 55,000 were actual paying customers.